Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 521 Zhiyun Superconducting Materials Factory
Mid-June, Guangcheng University.

Xu Shenxue once again appeared at his alma mater and, in the presence of many media, donated 1 billion yuan to his alma mater. According to the agreement between the two parties, the donated funds will be mainly used in three directions.

The first one is a scholarship for transferring to a special program. Any student from a poor family can apply for and receive funding. At the same time, some outstanding students in school can also apply for and receive scholarships.

The second part is used to build a number of high-standard advanced scientific research and teaching laboratories. Several core laboratories among them are particularly noteworthy, such as the Artificial Intelligence Materials Laboratory. This Artificial Intelligence Materials Laboratory is a supporting facility for the newly established Artificial Intelligence Materials major at Guangcheng University.

Guangcheng University is the first school in the world to establish artificial intelligence materials science... Well, strictly speaking, it is not the first, but it is the first university to be actually established. Besides, many famous universities have established artificial intelligence materials science disciplines before, but they are basically superficial... They don’t even have artificial intelligence for scientific research in artificial intelligence materials science, so what’s the point of artificial intelligence materials science?

The artificial intelligence materials science at Guangcheng University is supported by the supporting artificial intelligence materials science laboratory, and the artificial intelligence research system under Zhiyun Group will develop a restrictive interface for this laboratory to use for experiments... Of course, if this is done, the research and development results will actually belong to Zhiyun Group.

This project is actually a cooperative education.

Guangcheng University needs to set up an artificial intelligence materials major to provide a place and opportunity for learning and scientific research for the school’s teachers and students, and further their path to admission to a prestigious university.

Zhiyun Group, on the other hand, needs the school to train more top talents in the field of artificial intelligence materials science for them.

So the two parties hit it off and reached a school-enterprise cooperation agreement.

This is not the first time that Guangcheng University and Zhiyun Group have cooperated. In fact, they have done so many times.

Although Guangcheng University was previously just an ordinary 211 university and does not have any particularly advantageous disciplines, under normal circumstances, Zhiyun Group would not seek out schools of this level for extensive cooperation!

Zhiyun Group's school-enterprise cooperation basically looks for 985 universities with particularly strong science and engineering capabilities, as well as regular 985 universities that are very outstanding in some fields, or a very small number of 211 universities with advantages in certain fields.

But Guangcheng University is Xu Shenxue’s alma mater... With this kind of relationship, under Xu Shenxue’s personal promotion, a large number of companies including Zhiyun Group, Xiannvshan Holdings, Hailan Automobile, and Yihai Technology have successively extended olive branches to Guangcheng University and jointly engaged in various school-enterprise cooperation.

With more cooperation between schools and enterprises, many outstanding students will have more opportunities to enter various cooperatively established R&D centers and laboratories... This is equivalent to entering the R&D system of Zhiyun Group and other subsidiaries of Xu Shenxue in advance, which lays a good foundation for these outstanding students to enter Zhiyun Group and other companies in the future.

Therefore, a large number of outstanding students from Guangcheng University are able to enter large companies under Xu Shenxue, such as Zhiyunji, HaiLan Automobile, and Yihai Technology. The overall entry rate is even higher than that of ordinary 985 universities.

Of course, Guangcheng University’s current admission score is actually no lower than that of ordinary 985 universities.

In particular, the admission scores for several strong majors jointly run with Zhiyun Group, HaiLan Automobile, and Yihai Technology are very high, not much different from the admission scores of ordinary majors in Peking University and Tsinghua University.

For example, the microelectronics science and engineering major jointly run by Guangcheng University and Zhiyun Group is a major in the field of semiconductor design. The teachers are basically top engineers from Zhiyun Semiconductor Company... Many of the top scientists and engineers in Zhiyun Group are actually honorary professors and associate professors from various universities.

Teach while working!
The situation is similar in the field of semiconductor design. Many scientists and engineers in Zhiyun Semiconductor are honorary professors in some relevant universities in China. They occasionally give lectures and recruit master's or doctoral students. After graduation, these students will basically go to work in Zhiyun Semiconductor.

There is no other way but to send our own engineers out as honorary professors, conduct certain teaching and recruit masters and doctoral students.

Because there are so few high-quality talents in these top cutting-edge disciplines, and it is difficult to expect others to train them, we might as well train them ourselves.

At the same time, the technological research and development of companies like Zhiyun Group is already at the forefront of humanity... Students who study normally in schools are already far behind the technological frontier. In order to speed up the training process, the training stage is simply moved directly to the master's level.

Of course, Zhiyun Group would not help others train students and then end up with nothing... These talents actually joined Zhiyun Group directly after graduating from undergraduate school, and then followed their superiors, who were also mentors, to study for master's and doctoral degrees while training.

If you want to switch to other companies after learning enough, the penalty for breach of contract will be very high!

In addition to the semiconductor design field, the same is true in the semiconductor manufacturing field, and similar situations exist in the fields of smart terminals, batteries, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, etc.

There are not enough top talents outside, and others are too slow in training, and the ones they train are not very good. So Xu Shenxue's companies simply train their own talents through school-enterprise cooperation.

As for these top cooperative majors, basically, as long as the students are not too lazy or have extreme personalities, they can reserve a ticket to enter the R&D departments of companies such as Zhiyun Group, HaiLan Automobile, and Yihai Technology!
This is very attractive to many outstanding talents, especially some high school students whose family conditions are relatively ordinary... Everyone in the country knows that the R&D engineers of Zhiyun Group earn super high salaries!

Even if the high school students themselves do not understand the value of being admitted to this cooperative major and being able to join the R&D department of Zhiyun Group after graduating from college, their parents will know it. Even if their parents do not know, the teachers in the school will know it more or less.

As long as you pass the exam, as long as you work hard and don't give up, and study hard, then your future life will be a smooth road, and you may even be able to cross the social class barrier.

However, there are a lot of smart people these days, so the admission scores for these cooperative majors are getting higher every year.

Not to mention these top cooperative majors in Guangzhou University, even Shenzhen University, which is not even considered a first-class university, has an admission score line higher than a lot of 211 universities for its information and communication majors jointly run with Zhiyun Group!

There is no complicated reason, just one: if you are admitted to this college, it is basically equivalent to working for Zhiyun Group... In the future, the annual salary will be at least four or five hundred thousand, which is the minimum!
The median annual salary of R&D personnel in Zhiyun Group's R&D department, software field, and smart terminal field is about 700,000.

The median annual salary for R&D personnel in the semiconductor design and manufacturing fields is around 800,000.

The median annual salary of R&D engineers in the field of artificial intelligence is the highest, and it is significantly higher than that in other fields. The median annual salary can reach about 1.5 million!

Please note that this data is not the average data, but the median annual salary. The median means that most R&D personnel can get this salary!

When talking about a company's salary and benefits, talking about the average income does not make much sense, and it may not even have any reference value, because the income of the company's management and senior engineers is too high, which will significantly increase the average income.

If you want to know the overall employee income level of a company, you have to look at the median income.

Ji Chenghe's annual salary is calculated to be several hundred million yuan, while ordinary R&D personnel only earn a few hundred thousand yuan a year. If we average the income of a group of ordinary employees with his, wouldn't the average income of ordinary employees also be tens of millions?
But if we talk about the median income, then this figure will be very close to the hundreds of thousands of annual salary of ordinary employees.

The median income of Zhiyun Group has long been ranked first in the country. It can even be said that it is the company with the highest salary in the country, and is far ahead of other companies.

It is not easy to get in and get a high salary. One shortcut is to apply for a major in cooperation with Zhiyun Group when you are in college. Basically, you can start working directly after graduating from college, and you can continue to study for a master's or doctoral degree while working.

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After the donation ceremony of Guangcheng University, Xu Shenxue did not leave Guangcheng immediately, but went to Zhiyun Guangcheng Science and Technology Park not far away.

In addition to inspecting the regular projects in the science and technology park, the main purpose of coming here is to see a newly commissioned superconducting material manufacturing plant.

On the surface, this factory is only used to produce KT120 superconducting materials, a low-temperature superconducting material developed by Zhiyun Group, but secretly there is also a production line for MK34 superconducting materials with a very high level of confidentiality.

The KT120 superconductor in Zhiyun Group was developed a few years ago. Its performance is actually considered to be world-class. According to the outside superconducting industry, it is already an ultra-high temperature superconducting material and is very useful in medical equipment, such as magnetic resonance imaging equipment.

Because the superconducting temperature is low, the requirements for the refrigeration system are not that high, so the power consumption of nuclear magnetic resonance can be greatly reduced, which also greatly reduces the daily use cost of nuclear magnetic resonance equipment.

The electricity bill of more than one thousand yuan a day becomes a few hundred yuan. It seems that the electricity bill saved in one day is not much, but if this time is extended to ten or fifteen years or more, it will be several million yuan.

The medical equipment division of Galaxy Pharmaceuticals uses KT120 superconducting material to manufacture 1.5T and 3T MRI equipment, which sells very well in China and has even begun to capture overseas markets, becoming a dark horse in the field of MRI and bringing great pressure to similar foreign manufacturers.

However, even the KT120 superconducting material can only be regarded as a flag to cover up the MK34 material in Zhiyun Group.

After all, KT120 material still needs a temperature of minus degrees to achieve superconductivity.
But the MK34 material only needs minus twenty-five degrees...there is a huge difference here.

In many areas in the north during winter, when it is cold, the MK34 material can exhibit superconducting properties even without refrigeration, because the local temperature is already below minus degrees Celsius.

In conventional areas, although the temperature does not reach minus 25 degrees Celsius, conventional commercial refrigeration equipment is enough to reach the temperature of minus 25 degrees Celsius, greatly reducing the refrigeration cost.

Unlike KT120 materials, it does not require specialized top-level industrial-grade refrigeration equipment.

Due to the excellent properties of MK34 material, Zhiyun Group has taken the lead in applying this material to the YCL-51 superconducting quantum computer.

However, to mass-produce the TCL-51 superconducting quantum computer, the small amount of MK34 material prepared in the laboratory is naturally not enough, and a dedicated MK34 production line is also required.

However, mass production of MK34 materials is extremely difficult. Currently, the MK34 production lines developed by a large number of technical experts still have many problems such as high equipment requirements, high production environment requirements, and low output.

Large-scale and cheap industrial production is currently not possible.

However, even so, Zhiyun Group has tried to build the first MK34 material production line and started small-batch production of this top-level superconducting material, mainly for use in the field of superconducting quantum computers and other top domestic scientific research projects that require superconducting materials.

When Xu Shenxue came here today, he saw the production line of MK34 superconducting materials that the outside world knew nothing about...but it looked very strange. It was more like a laboratory than a production line.

After asking carefully, I found out that the current production technology route is actually the same as that of laboratory preparation, but it uses specially designed professional equipment, so the output is also larger.

To put it simply, it is to simply scale up the scientific research equipment in the laboratory and then achieve greater production capacity.

There is no way around it. Large-scale industrial mass production and cheap production are not yet possible. However, the demand for MK34 superconducting materials has increased again... Zhiyun Group is currently continuing to produce YCL-51 superconducting quantum computers for its own use and to supply them to relevant research and development institutions or enterprises. This requires a lot of MK34 materials.

After taking a quick look at this oversized laboratory production line, Xu Shenxue also took a look at the TK120 superconducting material production line.

After finishing the brief inspection, Xu Shenxue also called the person in charge of the superconducting material mass production project to ask about the situation. The focus was on when the MK34 material could be commercialized and mass-produced cheaply on a large scale.

But the answer Xu Shenxue got was not optimistic!

At present, the technical department has not yet solved this problem!

"Our MK34 material has very high requirements for equipment and environment during the preparation process. Currently, the equipment that can meet this production demand is top-level scientific research equipment and needs to be in a top-level laboratory environment,"

“Conventional industrial equipment and ordinary production environments cannot meet the required technical standards!”

"The production of top-level scientific research equipment and laboratory environment is not cheap. Using these top-level scientific research equipment as consumable equipment will make MK34 materials very expensive, and the output will be extremely limited. After all, the production capacity of top-level scientific research equipment is also limited, and it is impossible to meet the huge demand for MK34 materials in the future!"

Because of its room-temperature superconducting properties, MK34 material can superconduct at only minus degrees Celsius, which means that most commercial refrigerants can actually be used, and commercial-grade refrigeration equipment is sufficient.

The cost of refrigeration equipment is low, the cost of refrigerant is low, and the power consumption for refrigeration is even lower.

This makes the application of MK34 material very wide, in addition to the main application direction of conventional superconducting materials: nuclear magnetic resonance in the medical field.

MK34 material can also be used in superconducting quantum computers, superconducting ion colliders, experimental nuclear fusion reactors, etc.

Basically, it can be used in any field that requires superconducting materials.

However, the quality of MK34 material is low and it can only be used in some scientific research fields and the YCL superconducting quantum computer field.

But Xu Shenxue believes that this will not last long!
Sooner or later, the technical team will be able to deal with production capacity and costs.

(End of this chapter)